Jordaens – The Making of a Masterpiece
13 March – 14 June 2009

Highlights by Jacob Jordaens in the Bonnefantenmuseum. Two versions of The Tribute Money - Peter finding the silver coin in the mouth of the fish by Jacob Jordaens take pride of place in the exhibition, which was created in collaboration with the Statens Museum for Kunst. The Danish version of the painting underwent extensive technical research and was fully restored in Copenhagen in 2007 and 2008. The presentation is completed by all the paintings by Jordaens on long-term loan to the Bonnefantenmuseum as part of its alliance with the Rijksmuseum.
Jacob Jordaens is one of the most important painters of the Flemish Baroque. One of his undisputed masterpieces is The tribute money: Peter finding the silver coin in the mouth of the fish from ca. 1623. The monumental painting has been in the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen since 1912. A second, considerably smaller version of the painting from the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam is on display in the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht. Up to now, it was presumed that this version was a copy of the larger painting, but technical research has shown that the relationship between the two paintings is much more complex than was previously assumed. On this occasion, the large painting from Copenhagen is surrounded by some of Jacob Jordaens' paintings and drawings of the same period. This gives the visitor a unique picture of this great Antwerp painter around the year 1625.Catalogue in English and Danish: Jordaens. The Making of a Masterpiece, 120p. , Statens Museum for Kunst, 2008.

 

 

Queen and Huntress Chaste and Fair
The Rijksmuseum's Diana tapestries
13 March – 20 September 2009

  The Diana tapestries are being shown to the public for the first time as a series of six in Rijksmuseum Maastricht. In 2006, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam acquired three tapestries with themes from Ovid's Metamorphoses. They are part of a series, three of which were already in the museum's collection. The acquisition of the tapestries was made possible by the BankGiro Lottery and the Rembrandt Society. The tapestries were designed in the 1690s by Karel van Mander, who came from Meulebeke in West Flanders, but who became better known after he moved to Haarlem. The whole series was woven in Delft, in the atelier of François Spiering, who was also originally from the Southern Netherlands. Spiering seized his opportunity at a time which was difficult for Flemish workshops in Brussels and elsewhere because of the hostilities with Spain. Despite the Eighty Years' War, the Netherlands was a prosperous country.The Diana series is the absolute pinnacle of Dutch tapestry. The text of the Metamorphoses is often followed down to the last detail, with the dramatic end being either hidden or left out. The viewer is not bothered by the gruesome punishments meted out to mortals by the goddess Diana, and Ovid's stories are depicted as elegant fairytales. The exhibition also focuses on the restoration of the tapestries, which was carried out in 2008. Queen and Huntress Chaste and Fair is also the farewell exhibition of Ms. Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis, who left her position as textiles curator at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam in December 2008. Among other things, she is known for her scholarly catalogue European Tapestries in the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam 2004). In honour of her work, the Bonnefantenmuseum is organising a scholarly symposium in June 2009, in which international specialists will be looking at the representation of Diana in European art of the 16th century, and in tapestries in particular.Weaving Myths. Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Diana Tapestries in the Rijksmuseum is the publication about the Diana tapestries by Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis accompanying the exhibition.

 

The exhibitions Jordaens - The Making of a Masterpiece  and Queen and Huntress Chaste and Fair - The Rijksmuseum's Diana tapestries have been created as part of Rijksmuseum Maastricht, the unique alliance between the Rijksmuseum and Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, which was entered into in March 2007 for the period 2008-2012.

 

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	© Foto SMK.
	© Foto SMK.
	Fluitspelende satyr, 1630-1645 Jacob Jordaens
	The story of Cephalus and Procris, c. 1593-1610, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
	, 1593 François Spiering Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
	, 1593 François Spiering Rijksmuseum Amsterdam